Bug#556295: r-cran-xtable: Replacement of dash by dot in version number confuses dpkg when third-party sources are listed.

[Andreas Tille]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:32:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> in r-cran-xtable, you eliminated the dash from the upstream version number.
> This is an unnecessary precaution, that confuses dpkg when a third party
> repository is used, typically cran2deb, as the original version number will
> be seen as lower by dpkg even if the package is more recent.

I'm doing this systematically with all those CPAN packages which are
featuring a dash in their version number.  What would be your suggestion
to replace the dash safely?
 
> If you agree but are busy with something else, I can commit or upload a
> corrected version, with an epoch.

It is fine for me if you want to fix this package but there are more of
them with the same problem and I wonder what might be the best general
solution.  Dirk, could you comment on this please?

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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